As if Linux people don't "hype" things against Windows, either.
Meanwhile, the rational, quiet people whose opinions aren't voiced in boisterous +5 posts all the time just watch from the sidelines, shake their heads, and use the right tool for the job, whatever that may be.
Or, it just means they didn't feel like stripping things out of their i386 emulator for no reason.
Your post doesn't even make sense. Office supports XML--is that supposed to mean Microsoft hates XML? Is that why Office 2003 (and Longhorn) is centered around it?
Why would Microsoft even hate MP3s?
But, I guess logic and calm rationality wouldn't jive with the "M$ conspiracy" themes in your head, would it?
Look, Slashdot is corporate-owned and has an agenda. This is just a simple fact. Look at the proportion of Microsoft to Linux articles that appear on the front page these days (particularly in the last few months...it's a constant barrage).
Slashdot needs these "M$" bashing articles to generate page hits and comments. It doesn't matter if Microsoft never said they were dropping emulation support but simply technical support. Slashdotters don't care, and won't read the article to figure that out. They'll just post "M$" comments, BSOD and Clippy "jokes," and troll posts. Facts are thrown out of the discussion when it comes to Microsoft, because a lot of people here are really just Linux kiddies who finally got Mandrake installed and so think they're the greatest thing ever. Microsoft is then referred to as "M$," which just makes the Linux community look like retards.
I wish Slashdot were just a level-headed tech site, but instead of reading about cool technology and software, I have to wade through the latest bash-Microsoft flamebait rubbish. There are more Microsoft articles posted to the frontpage than Linux ones.
Is Slashdot pro-Linux or just anti-Microsoft? The answer is obvious, when you consider that Slashdot is corporate-owned.
Translation: we're going to optimise it to run what we want it to run, if it deliberately^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h accidentally turns out that Linux runs like a dog under our VM feel free to raise a problem ticket, and we'll get around to it sometime before Hell freezes over, maybe.
Heaven forbid Microsoft does what it wants with a product it owns.
But then again, where would Slashdot be without its inane con$piracy theories?
there was a great deal of concern that VirtualPC would not be able to run Linux, thus the story.
No, there was a great deal of need for Slashdot to have another Microsoft-bashing article. "M$ IS REMOVING LINUX FROM VIRTUAL PC!!1"
Meanwhile, if people had read the article or researched other sites, they would have known that Microsoft was indeed dropping support for Linux from Virtual PC 2004--official technical support, that is.
Paul Thurrot at Wininformant already reported on this. But heaven forbid Slashdot attempt to get facts straight when it comes to having a corporate agenda and bashing Microsoft (meanwhile, Slashdotters freak out if anyone else does that to Linux). Instead, Slashdot just need to fill its quota of 4-to-1 Microsoft to Linux articles, even though it's claimed that this is a pro-Linux site.
This is exactly why Linux will never, I repeat, NEVER make headway in the desktop market in its current state.
The conflict between actual usability and the fanatic ideals of Linux advocates means we'll always have GUIs designed by programmers and non-artists whose primary concern is "the point of Open Source."
Linux is made by intelligent people for intelligent people and idiots simply get lost.
Please. Some of the biggest idiots I know use Linux.
Linux is not made for intelligent people. It's really made for people who simply have the time to sit at their computer and spend hours to do the things that take Windows a few minutes.
This sense of satisfaction makes the user feel superior and intelligent. The time required for this also happens to require people who are generally loner and anti-socials, because people with social lives don't have the time nor interest to have using their operating system as a hobby. They just want to get things done.
This is exactly why Linxu hasn't been ready for the desktop, despite the claims made since 1998.
Whenever someone actually raises a valid user concern, someone chimes in with some condescending remark about "so when are you going to start the project" or "when are you going to code it?"
And so, it doesn't get done.
Meanwhile, in the REAL WORLD in which all that matters is results, things progress forward. And so, Linux stays behind.
So what, IBM said linux wasn't ready for the desktop - last year. That was a year ago! Linux has made quite a few strides on the desktop since then - and MS has dug themselves even deeper into their grave since then, as well. The time is now for linux on the desktop, if there is to be a time. There needs to be positive motion or someone else (Apple) will step in to try and take that market.
Just shut up.
What "strides" has Linux made in a year? How has MS dug themselves a grave? They're already got a free PDC demo of they're next OS not due out for another few years.
I've been hearing how Linux is "ready to take the desktop" since 1998! What, do you think Microsoft and Apple are just going to remain stagnant and not make any strides? Hell, SP2 for Windows XP is already going to include many backported features from Longhorn including IE's new pop-up blocking and possibly even the new download manager. Claim the rip-off of ideas all you want (Mozilla ripped it all off from Opera anyway), but it doesn't matter in the end.
Linux is not ready for the desktop. I doubt it will be except maybe in another three years. But right now, we're still doing the same damned things we did three years ago, but with prettier window managers. Meanwhile, I can't even cut and paste what I want!
Hey "Overly Critical Guy," do you even watch the movies on which your rants are based? Remember in the Matrix 2 when Neo was suddenly in the mountains? Was that part of one massive urban landscape?
Hey, smart guy? Are you going to criticize me for it or the Wachowski Bros., who are the ones who told this to the game developers?
Do you really think the entire world is simulated in the Matrix? There isn't a continent big enough to hold all the "fields" for that many billions of humans.
What's the big deal? I imagine bullet-time will just have sort of a radius of effect. If you're not in the same room, you won't slow down, and if you're watching it from a distance, you will see people moving in slow-motion but the rest of the game is moving normally.
If you try to fire into that radius of effect, your bullets will just slow down, so you can't pick off the bullet-time people. Everything slows down in that bubble. Makes sense to me. Can't wait for the game.
The TMO website states quite clearly when the RPG takes place (right after Revolutions) and that it will be based on plotlines guided by the Wachowskis.
There are two sides in the game--those who want people to remain in the Matrix (sort of a Cipher mindset), and those who feel everyone should be free because the Matrix is not real (like a Morpheus mindset).
There will be bullet-time and even possibly agents. It'll be everything Enter The Matrix wasn't. Nightclubs, actual traffic, and so forth will all exist in the game. It will be one big urban city, because according to the Wachowskis, the Matrix is one massive urban landscape.
All of that info, I got just from reading the official website the submitter linked to. Clearly, the submitter didn't even bother, instead asking when it takes place and saying how cool it seems if you ask him. Uh, yeah.
But, until ATI can actually come out with a stable driver that works with all games and apps, neither I, nor anybody I know can, in good conscience, actually recommend an ATI card.
Oh, stop trolling. Have you even tried any of the 3.x Catalyst series? When 3.0 hit, the driver quality matched that of the Detonators and has ever since.
I have never had a single problem with any driver compatibility except with Enter the Matrix on my Mobility Radeon 7500. All the textures were being misaligned. With the latest drivers, they suddenly started working. And my card's not even a supported card.
On a lighter note, Revolutions did have a *lot* less gratuitous fighting. The scene that irritated me the most in Reloaded was "You cannot know someone until you fight them." (Translation: "Holy crap! Fighting really sold the first one! Find every opportunity possible to throw a fight into the second one!")
Hello? That was a setup for when the Oracle said that Smith is Neo's opposite, his negative. "He is you." Smith is Neo.
All of this ties together, people. It was one big movie cut in two.
From the first film I'd always assumed that Trinity took her handle from the codename of the first atomic bomb test. Seems a much more hacker'ish connection than a religious icon.
Sorry, if that's true, then you've been an idiot from the start and missing the obvious religious story of the first movie. Neo is Christ. Trinity? Hello?
Even worse are those condescending people who miss all the deeper philosophical layers and instead are playing to the it's-hip-to-hate-the-Matrix crowd. Wow, you're so smart and intellectual because you think the Matrix is trash!
You know what amuses me about you people who bash the ending for allowing more sequels or for the possibility of more movies to be made is that you ignore the fact that Joel Silver, all the actors, and the Wachowskis have said there will absolutely be no more Matrix movies, and that this is the story they wanted to tell.
Hey, dumbass, the programs specifically stated that they were programmers from the Machine City, smuggling their daughter into the Matrix. Actually pay attention next time.
The Wachowskis are known for not leaving anything out. They storyboard everything massively. I heard Joel Silver say there was nothing left on the cutting room floor from Reloaded. The only thing I've heard of that could be definitely considered a deleted scene is something having to do with Cipher and the car crash in the first movie...there was more to that. To this day I don't know what happened or why it's a big deal that there was a car crash, and apparently there was a scene for that which got edited out for whatever reason.
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I love the biased nature of the summary.
As if Linux people don't "hype" things against Windows, either.
Meanwhile, the rational, quiet people whose opinions aren't voiced in boisterous +5 posts all the time just watch from the sidelines, shake their heads, and use the right tool for the job, whatever that may be.
No, they're the guys who brought us NT.
Windows 9x always was a hack job.
Or, it just means they didn't feel like stripping things out of their i386 emulator for no reason.
Your post doesn't even make sense. Office supports XML--is that supposed to mean Microsoft hates XML? Is that why Office 2003 (and Longhorn) is centered around it?
Why would Microsoft even hate MP3s?
But, I guess logic and calm rationality wouldn't jive with the "M$ conspiracy" themes in your head, would it?
Look, Slashdot is corporate-owned and has an agenda. This is just a simple fact. Look at the proportion of Microsoft to Linux articles that appear on the front page these days (particularly in the last few months...it's a constant barrage).
Slashdot needs these "M$" bashing articles to generate page hits and comments. It doesn't matter if Microsoft never said they were dropping emulation support but simply technical support. Slashdotters don't care, and won't read the article to figure that out. They'll just post "M$" comments, BSOD and Clippy "jokes," and troll posts. Facts are thrown out of the discussion when it comes to Microsoft, because a lot of people here are really just Linux kiddies who finally got Mandrake installed and so think they're the greatest thing ever. Microsoft is then referred to as "M$," which just makes the Linux community look like retards.
I wish Slashdot were just a level-headed tech site, but instead of reading about cool technology and software, I have to wade through the latest bash-Microsoft flamebait rubbish. There are more Microsoft articles posted to the frontpage than Linux ones.
Is Slashdot pro-Linux or just anti-Microsoft? The answer is obvious, when you consider that Slashdot is corporate-owned.
Translation: we're going to optimise it to run what we want it to run, if it deliberately^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h accidentally turns out that Linux runs like a dog under our VM feel free to raise a problem ticket, and we'll get around to it sometime before Hell freezes over, maybe.
Heaven forbid Microsoft does what it wants with a product it owns.
But then again, where would Slashdot be without its inane con$piracy theories?
there was a great deal of concern that VirtualPC would not be able to run Linux, thus the story.
No, there was a great deal of need for Slashdot to have another Microsoft-bashing article. "M$ IS REMOVING LINUX FROM VIRTUAL PC!!1"
Meanwhile, if people had read the article or researched other sites, they would have known that Microsoft was indeed dropping support for Linux from Virtual PC 2004--official technical support, that is.
Paul Thurrot at Wininformant already reported on this. But heaven forbid Slashdot attempt to get facts straight when it comes to having a corporate agenda and bashing Microsoft (meanwhile, Slashdotters freak out if anyone else does that to Linux). Instead, Slashdot just need to fill its quota of 4-to-1 Microsoft to Linux articles, even though it's claimed that this is a pro-Linux site.
Longhorn sounds like they're eliminating half of what made Windows so popular, its portability.
.NET, right?
You have heard of
Disney isn't shifting from their cell shaded look at all. There aren't many videogames switching to cell shading, either.
What are you talking about? Easy karma.
This is exactly why Linux will never, I repeat, NEVER make headway in the desktop market in its current state.
The conflict between actual usability and the fanatic ideals of Linux advocates means we'll always have GUIs designed by programmers and non-artists whose primary concern is "the point of Open Source."
Linux is made by intelligent people for intelligent people and idiots simply get lost.
Please. Some of the biggest idiots I know use Linux.
Linux is not made for intelligent people. It's really made for people who simply have the time to sit at their computer and spend hours to do the things that take Windows a few minutes.
This sense of satisfaction makes the user feel superior and intelligent. The time required for this also happens to require people who are generally loner and anti-socials, because people with social lives don't have the time nor interest to have using their operating system as a hobby. They just want to get things done.
Sorry to burst your bubble (actually, I'm not).
This is exactly why Linxu hasn't been ready for the desktop, despite the claims made since 1998.
Whenever someone actually raises a valid user concern, someone chimes in with some condescending remark about "so when are you going to start the project" or "when are you going to code it?"
And so, it doesn't get done.
Meanwhile, in the REAL WORLD in which all that matters is results, things progress forward. And so, Linux stays behind.
In other words, you're not pro-Linux, you're just anti-Microsoft.
That sums up 90% of Slashdot, by the way.
So what, IBM said linux wasn't ready for the desktop - last year. That was a year ago! Linux has made quite a few strides on the desktop since then - and MS has dug themselves even deeper into their grave since then, as well. The time is now for linux on the desktop, if there is to be a time. There needs to be positive motion or someone else (Apple) will step in to try and take that market.
Just shut up.
What "strides" has Linux made in a year? How has MS dug themselves a grave? They're already got a free PDC demo of they're next OS not due out for another few years.
I've been hearing how Linux is "ready to take the desktop" since 1998! What, do you think Microsoft and Apple are just going to remain stagnant and not make any strides? Hell, SP2 for Windows XP is already going to include many backported features from Longhorn including IE's new pop-up blocking and possibly even the new download manager. Claim the rip-off of ideas all you want (Mozilla ripped it all off from Opera anyway), but it doesn't matter in the end.
Linux is not ready for the desktop. I doubt it will be except maybe in another three years. But right now, we're still doing the same damned things we did three years ago, but with prettier window managers. Meanwhile, I can't even cut and paste what I want!
Hey "Overly Critical Guy," do you even watch the movies on which your rants are based? Remember in the Matrix 2 when Neo was suddenly in the mountains? Was that part of one massive urban landscape?
Hey, smart guy? Are you going to criticize me for it or the Wachowski Bros., who are the ones who told this to the game developers?
Do you really think the entire world is simulated in the Matrix? There isn't a continent big enough to hold all the "fields" for that many billions of humans.
Think a little next time.
Wow! A paperclip joke!
Along with BSOD jokes, they are relics of the 90s. Thank you for being that decade's spokesperson!
What's the big deal? I imagine bullet-time will just have sort of a radius of effect. If you're not in the same room, you won't slow down, and if you're watching it from a distance, you will see people moving in slow-motion but the rest of the game is moving normally.
If you try to fire into that radius of effect, your bullets will just slow down, so you can't pick off the bullet-time people. Everything slows down in that bubble. Makes sense to me. Can't wait for the game.
Do you even read the links you submit?
The TMO website states quite clearly when the RPG takes place (right after Revolutions) and that it will be based on plotlines guided by the Wachowskis.
There are two sides in the game--those who want people to remain in the Matrix (sort of a Cipher mindset), and those who feel everyone should be free because the Matrix is not real (like a Morpheus mindset).
There will be bullet-time and even possibly agents. It'll be everything Enter The Matrix wasn't. Nightclubs, actual traffic, and so forth will all exist in the game. It will be one big urban city, because according to the Wachowskis, the Matrix is one massive urban landscape.
All of that info, I got just from reading the official website the submitter linked to. Clearly, the submitter didn't even bother, instead asking when it takes place and saying how cool it seems if you ask him. Uh, yeah.
But, until ATI can actually come out with a stable driver that works with all games and apps, neither I, nor anybody I know can, in good conscience, actually recommend an ATI card.
Oh, stop trolling. Have you even tried any of the 3.x Catalyst series? When 3.0 hit, the driver quality matched that of the Detonators and has ever since.
I have never had a single problem with any driver compatibility except with Enter the Matrix on my Mobility Radeon 7500. All the textures were being misaligned. With the latest drivers, they suddenly started working. And my card's not even a supported card.
He just further insults people who, heaven forbid, didn't want one of the possibilities of the film knocked off for them.
:P
Thanks, CowboyNeal. And thanks for disregarding reader anger and pretending it's not a big deal. Jerk.
On a lighter note, Revolutions did have a *lot* less gratuitous fighting. The scene that irritated me the most in Reloaded was "You cannot know someone until you fight them." (Translation: "Holy crap! Fighting really sold the first one! Find every opportunity possible to throw a fight into the second one!")
Hello? That was a setup for when the Oracle said that Smith is Neo's opposite, his negative. "He is you." Smith is Neo.
All of this ties together, people. It was one big movie cut in two.
From the first film I'd always assumed that Trinity took her handle from the codename of the first atomic bomb test. Seems a much more hacker'ish connection than a religious icon.
Sorry, if that's true, then you've been an idiot from the start and missing the obvious religious story of the first movie. Neo is Christ. Trinity? Hello?
Even worse are those condescending people who miss all the deeper philosophical layers and instead are playing to the it's-hip-to-hate-the-Matrix crowd. Wow, you're so smart and intellectual because you think the Matrix is trash!
You know what amuses me about you people who bash the ending for allowing more sequels or for the possibility of more movies to be made is that you ignore the fact that Joel Silver, all the actors, and the Wachowskis have said there will absolutely be no more Matrix movies, and that this is the story they wanted to tell.
Next.
Hey, dumbass, the programs specifically stated that they were programmers from the Machine City, smuggling their daughter into the Matrix. Actually pay attention next time.
The Wachowskis are known for not leaving anything out. They storyboard everything massively. I heard Joel Silver say there was nothing left on the cutting room floor from Reloaded. The only thing I've heard of that could be definitely considered a deleted scene is something having to do with Cipher and the car crash in the first movie...there was more to that. To this day I don't know what happened or why it's a big deal that there was a car crash, and apparently there was a scene for that which got edited out for whatever reason.